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kerrin
09-22-2009, 06:23 PM
What qualifies a life as innocent?
What are the laws that must be violated to make a life no longer innocent?
Devilyn
10-01-2009, 12:12 PM
No understanding or experience of the world?
I don't believe you must break any law to lose your innocence. I think you must just become aware to lose your innocence. Therefore an unborn child cannot lose it's innocence.
John Scott
10-02-2009, 10:26 PM
Innocence indicates a absence of wrong-doing.
An innocent human life is one that has not intentionally violated the freedom of others.
kerrin
10-04-2009, 06:42 AM
I think you must just become aware to lose your innocence.
I wonder, how then would you define innocence? I find the common use of the word is to mean guiltless, blameless, and irreproachable. If one simple becomes *aware*, of what are they guilty? Living? Perceiving reality? How can awareness be wrong? What wrongdoing do you accuse someone who has become aware?
Would you consider awareness (knowledge or perception of a situation or fact) itself to be wrong? Or is there a particular type of knowledge or perception that you think makes someone guilty?
How do you defend your position that "you must just become aware to lose your innocence"?